FYI the vpopmail package supports multiple UID accounts now so you can have
an entire virtual domain as a seperate user.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Cazabon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: sendmail migration
> Jason Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I've spent some time looking over the qmail documenation and want to
migrate
> > from sendmail because of it's lackluster virtual domain support.
>
> You won't regret the switch. By the way, www.qmail.org has numerous
pointers
> to information about all the things you mention here.
>
> There are two main packages that do what you want: vmailmgr, by Bruce
> Guenter, and vpopmail.
>
> > The things I would like to do are:
> >
> > 1. Have email/pop accounts without adding system users (/etc/passwd)
>
> Both packages support this.
>
> > 2. Have clear seperation of the virual domains, with domain1 having a
> > seperate directory with it's /var/spool/mail equivelent. So that mail
would
> > be delivered to /domain1-com/jradford and another would be
> > /domain2-com/jradford
>
> vpopmail handles all virtual domains under one system account. Not sure
how
> it separates them in the filesystem, as I don't use it. vmailmgr uses one
> system account per virtual domain, and all users for that domain are
stored
> under that account's home directory.
>
> > 3. Users getting their pop mail could use a username of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > and other use [EMAIL PROTECTED] to login for their pop3 services and
the
> > qmail pop3 daemon would know to go to the right /domain directory to
retrieve
> > their email based on the username/domain combination.
>
> They both support this. Note, however, that your clients may have to
replace
> the '@' with another character in their mail client, as some clients
silently
> truncate a POP3 username at the first '@'. vmailmgr lets you choose your
> own character; IIRC ':' and '%' are common choices. vmailmgr also
supports
> an invisible method of determing what virtual domain a user account
belongs
> to, if you can have multiple IP addresses on the machine.
>
> Check vmailmgr.org, qmail.org for more details, and look in the qmail
mailing
> list archives.
>
> Charles
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